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Deaths in Public Institutions.
During the year 1910 the deaths of Battersea residents occurring
in Public Institutions numbered 735 as compared with 874 in
1909. Of this number 332 occurred within and 403 outside the
Borough. Three hundred and seventy occurred in workhouses or
union infirmaries as against 470 in 1909 and 383 in 1908.
Infant Mortality.
Infant Mortality has reference to the deaths of children under
one year of age, i.e., the proportion which the deaths of such infants
in any given year bears to every thousand children born in the
same year. Infant mortality varies widely in different districts,
and has come to be regarded as a sensitive index of the sanitary
condition of a district. In recent years, owing to the attention
devoted to this subject, there has been a general improvement
throughout the country. Compared with the average for the ten
years 1900-1909 there has been a decline of 26.0 per 1,000 in the
infant mortality of England and Wales.
Infant Mortality in Battersea in 1910.
During the year 1910, 434 deaths of infants were registered
in the Borough of Battersea. The total number of births recorded
during the year was 4,489, an increase of 39 births over those of 1909,
giving an infant mortality rate of 96.6 per 1,000. This was the
lowest infant mortality rate ever previously recorded in Battersea,
the previous lowest rate being that recorded in 1909 and 1908,
viz., 107 per 1,000.